Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 9:11

11 ¶ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord , and one said unto him, Is all well ? Wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto him, Ye know the man, and his communication .

To the rest of the Commanders and Officers there present.

Is not this unlucky Messenger come with some ill tidings?

They perceived him to be a Prophet by his habit, and gestures, and manner of speech. And these prophane Soldiers esteemed the Lords Prophets mad men; partly, because of their neglect of themselves, and contempt of all worldly Wealth and Honour, which the wise Men of this World so greedily seek, and of their strange and uncouth manner of living: partly, because of their Holy Exercises to which they devoted themselves, which they esteemed nothing but a Religious phrenzy: and partly, because of those unusual and seemingly ridiculous gestures and actions which the Prophets sometimes used in raptures of Spirit, or in the [illegible: 1+ letters]ervours of Devotion. Compare Ier. 29. 26. Ioh. 10. 20. Act. 26. 24.

You rightly guess that he was a mad man, and so it appears by his discourse with me, which was, after the manner of that sort of men, vain and impertinent, to tell me of my [illegible: 1+ letters]ins, or of my duty, or such things as are not worth my speaking, or your hearing.

Marginal references: Heb. peace.